Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.
Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.
A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.
If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.
You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.
Anything less is global suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I so no articles about the non-existent spring the Northeast had. It snowed here 3 weeks ago. I just put away my winter coat.
Record temperatures. Given the small sample set of at most 200 years it would be expected every year record temperatures are set given there are 365 possible days for a record high or low to be set.
1980, my part of Missouri 29 out of 31 days over 100.
I was in Phoenix one summer about the same time.
I was laying out at the pool and the pages of my paperback started to fall out. The glue was melting!!
I don’t remember the exact tempt but I do remember it was over 110
Death Valley is dry heat as are Las Vegas and Phoenix comparatively speaking.
Were you born yesterday Ms. Filipovic? The Southwest always broils in the Summertime.
Were you born yesterday Ms. Filipovic? The Southwest always broils in the Summertime.
I feel sorry for Jill Filipovic.
Maybe she has been kept in NYC and Atlanta all her life?
5.56mm
And in the Summer! Oh my! It gets hot in the Summer!
Who would have thought it?
117 here in Gilbert AZ (30 mi. SE from Phoenix) right now. Couple flights grounded since Embraers are grounded at 118F. Nobody is in a panic. Got a backyard pool, umbrella, and life is good.
We lived in Phoenix for about eight months in 1962. First thing our neighbor told us was not to roll our windows all the way up because the heat build-up if your car sat out in the sun could cause the windows to burst. My then husband was from Missouri - the Show-Me state - and ignored the advice. We had a stretch of 120 degree days and guess what, he was shown first hand what happens when you ignore local’s advice. And not once, but twice it happened. But it was a dry heat. LOL
Everyone that has lived here long remembers also there have been days of 122 but I see it only reflects highest as 119.
Ask any longtime Phoenician, they will verify, 122, and not just once.
You have to remember, to a liberal, history started when they woke up this morning......................
The author is an imbecile...................
it’s worse than that, I’m afraid...and it’s too bad, cuz she’s almost as hot as it is in Phoenix...
Same here. The ‘official recorded temperature’ is at the airport, not where people live. Our airport is 10 miles away...............
Yuma also built a bunch of canals and got high humidity with their torrential heat.
[I was in Phoenix one summer about the same time.]
Woke up in my hotel in Phoenix in 1996. It was about 9 or 9:30 a.m. People all out at the pool.
I thought, who goes to the pool at 9?
Then I figured it out.
Had a rented 1996 Thunderbird. Came out of Venture (remember them?) and touched the chrome door handle.
Oooh, ouch!! Hot HOT HOT!!!
But I did grab up a nice collection of BBQ sauce. Amazingly, Southwest didn’t break a bottle. There was no mail order that I knew of at the time so I loaded up several dozen bottles. Cleaned out at least 2 or 3 grocery stores of what was on the shelves.
Phoenix residents probably know which sauce I was after.
“You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement.”
Wow, things got hot in a hurry!
Who'dve thunk it?
Doesn’t look like the hairy armpit type.
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